
Mark MacLene owes the IRS, the banks and others a lot of money. The problem is that his trust makes $1,000,000 a year, but he spends $150,000 every month. Read More »
Tag Archives: Janet Leigh
Confidentially Connie (1953) Edward Buzzell, Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern

Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor Read More »
Scaramouche (1952) George Sidney, Stewart Granger, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker

Andre-Louis Moreau is a nobleman’s bastard in the days of the French revolution. Read More »
An American Dream (1966) Robert Gist, Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker, Drama

A TV talk-show host who may have killed his wife finds himself being pursued by both the police and a gang of hoods. Read More »
The Naked Spur (1953) Anthony Mann, James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan

Howard Kemp is a bounty hunter who’s been after killer Ben Vandergroat for a long time. Read More »
Strictly Dishonorable (1951) Melvin Frank, Norman Panama, Ezio Pinza, Janet Leigh, Millard Mitchell, Comedy, Romance, Musical

Strictly Dishonorable is a musicalized version of Preston Sturges’ cynical Broadway comedy of the same title, previously filmed sans songs in 1931. Read More »
Act of Violence (1949) Fred Zinnemann, Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

War veteran Frank Enley seems to be a happily married small-town citizen until he realises Joe Parkson is in town. Read More »
Living It Up (1954) Norman Taurog, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Comedy

Pretty Wally Cooper, a reporter for the New York Chronicle convinces her editor to let her do a series of articles on Homer Flagg Read More »
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954) Rudolph Maté, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, David Farrar, Adventure, History, Romance

In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles of Crisby Dale, and his sister Meg, have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of their father’s true identity. Read More »
Houdini (1953) George Marshall, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher, Biography, Drama

The amazing career of master magician Harry Houdini is presented from his beginnings with a carnival “wild man” act to his emergence as an internationally-acclaimed illusionist, From his dramatic escape from a locked safe under the frozen Detroit River to an even more improbable one from a locked cell in Scotland Yard, he never failed to please and astound his audiences. Although Houdini’s tricks are achieved through his marvelous physical dexterity and innate sleight-of-hand, he courted death with the hazardous illusions he performed and his compulsive quest to make contact with the spirit world.
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